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The Neurosurgery Division at Texas Children’s Hospital provides clinical care for disorders of the brain, spine and peripheral nervous system. We evaluate outpatients as possible candidates for neurological surgery to treat disorders that include congenital malformations of the brain and spine, hydrocephalus, tumors of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves, cerebrovascular and spinal vascular malformations, cranial and craniofacial malformations, spinal deformities, and functional disorders including epilepsy, movement disorders and spasticity.

Our program is one of the largest and most experienced pediatric neurosurgery units in the United States and our board-certified, internationally recognized pediatric neurosurgeon-scientists complete more than 950 operating room procedures each year.

Texas Children’s is the first hospital, pediatric or adult, in the world to use real-time MRI-guided thermal imaging and laser technology to destroy lesions in the brain that cause epilepsy. This new surgical approach offers a safer and significantly less invasive alternative to craniotomy in selected patients. Surgeries using this revolutionary MRI-guided laser procedure have been performed at Texas Children’s Hospital on pediatric epilepsy patients with widely varied types of brain lesions and with a great deal of success in dramatically reducing or eliminating epileptic seizures.

Our division collaborates in clinical and research projects with a number of medical and surgical divisions, including Neurology, Interventional Neuroradiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery, Developmental Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.